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Show Public Is Invited To Buy on Credit (Br gssstlaliS Pnasl NEW YORK. March 7 Bualneaa turned to the public prints today to tell the man In the street ' that he could trade as freely as he liked on his good name; eat on It, sleep on It, procure all the necessities of life on It, travel on It, even to to the theater on It and take along the folks. The advertising columns of the New York papers were crowded with dis-plsy dis-plsy announcements brimming with encoursgsment for the present and with optimism a to th future Th ordinary pay-as-you-go family was told that money might be temporarily tempo-rarily scarce, that scrip might be not yet svsilsbls, but that credit was atill th cornerstone of commerce and that desptt th present crisis It re-ma re-ma Ined unshaken. "If you haven't got a charge account, ac-count, hurry In and start one, wss the tenor of most of th deportment store Bdvartisemecls. Aad they suites sui-tes ted bow to use such account lo best advantage, even advocating office of-fice worker eating lunch In tha store restaurant aad charging tba bill to their accounts. 1 Hotels offered all their facilities on a basis at trust Btaamship lines advertised ad-vertised that checks were acceptable and that acrlp would be a aoon as issued. Airplane com pen is and other' travel firms followed suit . Broedwy went even farther than the rest In extending a helping, eland a tha tastparariUr embarrassed, re ducers af ona ot the current hits Invited In-vited plsygoers to use checks for the purchase ol tickets and added thst if checks were not avaiUbl I O Us would do Just as wIL With sll this encouragement and re-ssursnc re-ssursnc that temporary shortage of cash wasn't going lo mean corresponding correspond-ing shortage of necessities or even minor luxuries, the people continued about their business with untroubled calm. . Bom of tha store want beyond credit assurance in thalr advertisement advertise-ment and used newspaper space to diagnose the public's condition and find it good. Under th beading "Rasplritlon regular, reg-ular, -pulse normal on ot th large stores ssid: "A great store la In a key position for testing public reset ion to any emergency operation. It 1 pleasant, therefore, to issue a public bulletin (shout the public) and report that with the temporary financial tourniquet tourni-quet snugly spplled, business proceeded proceed-ed under th most reassuring cood toag." . . : , , .. |